by Gale Borger
Hack looked up at her and said, "It's Deck the Halls, lady, not decked."
Gerry looked down her nose at him, swinging the coffee urn. "Not to you, it isn't, Mister! You were the one decked!"
Laughter filled the hallway. They started making their way back to the festivities when Mark heard a floorboard squeak. Silence reigned and everyone looked down to see Henri panting and smiling in doggy relief.
"Hen-ri!"
Hack turned to look at the bulldog's behind as she followed the crowd to the front of the shop. He turned a little green and buried his nose in his shoulder, trying to escape the stench. "Oh my God, what the heck was that?"
J.J. urged him forward and said, "That's just Henri's way of saying, Merry Christmas, creep."
Gale Borger has been involved in law enforcement for over twenty years. This gives her an endless source of background material for her books. Growing up in a screwball household also gives her a sense for the zany and the bizarre. Gale writes what she knows, and she knows bad guys and funny stuff—but not necessarily in that order!
Gale lives in Southeastern Wisconsin with her husband and daughter, a Dogue de Bordeaux, two cats, about 1500 tropical fish, an African Horned Toad, a side-neck turtle, two dwarf hamsters, and a leopard gecko.
When Gale is not writing, she and her husband breed and swap tropical fish. Gale is also a Master Gardener and after work can usually be found in a flower bed up to her ears in weeds, or volunteering at a local gardening event.
Totally Buzzed is the first book in the Miller Sisters Mysteries.
See what's up with Gale at http://galeborgerbooks.com, check out her blog at galeborgerbooks.wordpress.com or contact her at [email protected].
